I'm sorry Larry, but this is simply false. The taper forces the faces of the threads into intimate contact, and at that point, when the thread faces seat against each other, the roots and tips of the...

Laz,
there is another type of baggage door support that you might be interested in.
It is basically a tightly wound coil spring with little brackets on each end. You put one bracket on the door, one...

The next step will be to remove the upper skin, and install the corner tapes where the ribs bond to the lower skin. We will do some clean-up on the raw edges of the bond flange tapes that were molded...

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